With 2020 having been a highly unusual year for the recording industry, the release of Taylor Swift’s Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on the Disney+ platform at the end of November provided a welcome, intimate insight into one of the biggest recording stars of our time. A mix between documentary film and live performance, […]
Music consumption increased for a sixth year in 2020, with 155 million albums or their equivalent either streamed or purchased in 2020 – an 8.2 per cent rise on 2019, with growth led by streaming fuelled by label investment. There were some 139 billion audio streams – up by over a fifth – with nearly […]
An intimate concert film featuring Taylor Swift with Aaron Dessner (The National), Jack Antonoff (Bleachers) and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) will premiere exclusively on Disney+ on November 25th. Titled folklore: the long pond studio sessions, the performance was filmed in upstate New York in September, with each song from the folklore album performed live, and […]